Topic #3: From Communism to Free Enterprise / Political Challenges (p. 430-432)

L (What did you learn? Take notes as you read; answer your questions):
  • Russian people get many lung diseases
  • Pollution gives Russian people diseases, and the life expectancy has decreased.
  • They have a market economy (when people start and run businesses with little government intervention).
  • A Russian president has a lot of power.
  • Falling life expectency because of enviromental issues
  • One of the enviromental issues is nuclear energy
  • Russia is democratic country
  • Free enteprise system is when people start and run businesses with little help from the government
  • some ethnic groups wanted to start their own countries
  • Democracy is a government in which people freely elect their leaders.
  • Federal republic is power is divided between national and state governments with a president who leads the nation.
  • Nuclear energy is power made by creating a controlled atomic reaction.
  • Why nulcear energy is bad: government can’t set prices for goods so that people could afford food but often faced shortages (Producers would not supply goods if couldn’t make a profit). Everyone had jobs under communism.
  • When people start their own business thats a free enterprise.
  • Government officials now have to abide by the law and take criticism.
  • Power is divided between national and state governments with a president who leads the nation.
  • Government officials are trying to keep Chechnya apart of Russia.
  • Manufacturers have risen their prices, making it hard to buy food and clothing.
  • Free enterprise caused competition which made prices rise
  • The 1st president was Yeltsin
  • The 2nd president was Putin